Senior Linux Platform Development Engineer
On-siteDublin, Leinster, Ireland
Job Summary
Design, build, and maintain internally developed platform services, APIs, automation frameworks, and self-service platforms using Python. Develop scalable infrastructure services and distributed systems while designing, developing, and evolving SIG's global OpenStack and Kubernetes platforms, including operators, controllers, and integrations. Create and maintain CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, and automation solutions supporting platform delivery. Troubleshoot complex issues across Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, networking, storage, and virtualization. Contribute to platform architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction through architecture reviews and design discussions.
Required Qualifications
- Strong expertise in Linux engineering, including troubleshooting across kernel, networking, storage, virtualization, and complex production environments
- Proven experience in Python development and software engineering, building automation frameworks, APIs, platform services, engineering tooling, or infrastructure platforms used by other engineers
- Deep Hands-on experience in OpenStack platform development and engineering, including contributing to platform architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction within large-scale or globally distributed environments
- Extensive experience in Kubernetes platform engineering, including designing, building, operating, and extending production Kubernetes platforms through automation, operators, controllers, integrations, and platform services
- Strong experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and custom-built infrastructure platforms within globally distributed engineering organisations
- Strong platform engineering and distributed systems mindset
- Excellent troubleshooting, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Able to influence technical direction while balancing strategic thinking with hands-on engineering execution
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building internal developer platforms, shared infrastructure services, self-service systems, or engineering productivity tooling
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure, including multi-region architectures, hybrid cloud environments, or distributed storage platforms
- Contribution to open-source projects or experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate platform engineering, automation, and software delivery
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